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Speaker 1: Okay, listen, go on and tell me that any of

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Speaker 1: the allegations that we've heard about the Mari Party in

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Speaker 1: the last thirty six hours surprise you. Does it shock

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Speaker 1: you in any way to find out that one of

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Speaker 1: their MPs allegedly paid her son one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars of tax payer money that she couldn't apparently

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Speaker 1: balance her own budget, and that her son allegedly abused

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Speaker 1: parliamentary staff so badly that he was trespassed from the grounds.

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Speaker 1: Not really a not really a surprise, And this feels

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Speaker 1: like exactly the kind of stuff you would expect to

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Speaker 1: be happening when a political party pulls together a collection

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Speaker 1: of activists who have no respect for the rules, which

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Speaker 1: they demonstrate on a seemingly weekly basis by not showing

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Speaker 1: up to their jobs in parliament, who can't even do

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Speaker 1: up a pair of leather shoes to go to work,

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Speaker 1: and who think nepotism is just another way of showing

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Speaker 1: love to your family. Their words, not mine. Now, do

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Speaker 1: you realize that that alleged incident where eduw Kapakini shouted

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Speaker 1: at parliamentary staff and threatened to knock one out happened

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Speaker 1: on Budget Day twenty twenty four as in eighteen months ago,

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Speaker 1: and we have only just found out now, which as

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Speaker 1: me wondering what else is going on in there that

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Speaker 1: we don't know about yet. Now I'm not surprised by

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Speaker 1: what's being revealed, and what it means is I find

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Speaker 1: it weirdly that I'm weirdly not actually terribly exercised by it.

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Speaker 1: Certainly not in the way that I would be if

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Speaker 1: this was National or Labor or any other serious party.

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Speaker 1: I would expect in those instances for heads to roll,

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Speaker 1: and I would expect explanations and media stand ups and

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Speaker 1: real interrogations by the media, and people appearing on the

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Speaker 1: show to be grilled. But I don't expect that with

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Speaker 1: the Marti Party. Now that should worry the Marty Party,

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Speaker 1: because what that means is that I, than anyone else

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Speaker 1: who feels like me, don't take them seriously. We don't

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Speaker 1: think they're serious people. We don't expect them to hold

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Speaker 1: standards up. We regard what we're seeing as more of

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Speaker 1: a clown show that needs to be contained so it

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Speaker 1: doesn't contaminate the rest of Parliament. So good luck to

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Speaker 1: them making it into a future cabinet which they're obviously

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Speaker 1: quite keen on if they're not being taken seriously by us.

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